Choosing the Right Season to Fish on Lake Erie, New York

Choosing the Right Season to Fish on Lake Erie, New York Dan Hernandez: Yeah, one little bump there. Terry Jones: Oh, this one doesn’t want to come up Dan. Dan Hernandez: Oh, that's a nice one. Terry Jones: Oh yeah. Dan Hernandez: Another four pounder. Terry Jones: Yeah. Dan Hernandez: Get out of that mine. Terry Jones: I’ve got the switch in. Good one Dan. Dan Hernandez: Yeah, it’s a big fish. Terry Jones: Nice molly. Dan Hernandez: This is--. Terry Jones: Now it’s a little bit better. This is big. There we go. Dan Hernandez: This is over four. Terry Jones: Yup. Look at that. Look at that, he opened his mouth for you right for the camera. Look at that! Dan Hernandez: That is a beautiful fish. Terry Jones: And guess what? Dan Hernandez: A double? Terry Jones: Oh. Dan Hernandez: We got a double. This fish is well over four. He’s might go up five pound is it? Terry Jones: Close. Dan Hernandez: We got it there, right up there. There's our bud, we got two bait. Terry Jones: Yeah. Dan Hernandez: You can get that. That's a nice fish. Terry Jones: Lake Erie Pro series, Canyon to a white belly. Awesome! Dan Hernandez: Nice and big, all right. I just was come to that two bait right of the bottom. Came up and get that. Not only is big as yours. That's a good one. Terry Jones: You know that's a good one. That's a nice one. Dan Hernandez: And it’s very nice to got one. Terry Jones: Here we go. It’s a nice one. Dan Hernandez: Oh yeah, that's a good one. Terry Jones: We got a big belly looks like me. Dan Hernandez: You see how he ate that thing right on top of there. Terry Jones: Right there. Dan Hernandez: Red cage in line. Terry Jones: Red cage inline. Dan Hernandez: Now, this is pretty typical the fish that you get here. What are the seasons on this fish? Terry Jones: Dan, New York now starting this year has a season year around that is broken into three segments. Right now we’re in the trophy section of the season which starts the first Saturday in May until the third Saturday in June and that's when our red wire season is. It’s one fish per day, 20 inches or larger. Our regular season is five fish per day with 12 inches minimum limit and then that runs from the third Saturday in June until the end of November and then we have December 1st until the first Friday in May to catch and release artificial only. So it’s year around. Dan Hernandez: And most of the year, you can fish here there's only few months when its get iced over? Terry Jones: Yeah, well it’s depends every year is a little bit different but this is the first year I can ever remember that Christmas and New Years eve was warmer than Easters. You know it’s hard to tell every year is different Dan. Dan Hernandez: Cool and do you have a website for you guys service? Terry Jones: Yeah, I do. My website is www.firstclass-best.com in that first is we’re the one team. Come and get yourself some people. Dan Hernandez: Yeah, that's good. All right, I think I got another. Nice fish. Here we go. Here we go with then hit and jump. Terry Jones: Oh, that's a good one. Dan Hernandez: Nice one. Terry Jones: This is a good one. Dan Hernandez: Come to daddy. Terry Jones: There we go. Dan Hernandez: Open your mouth one more time. Terry Jones: The thumbs going to be like mine real soon Dan. Dan Hernandez: There's that big. Terry Jones: Beautiful. First one good, ha? Dan Hernandez: Yeah, this one is a little deep. I don’t know, I going to just cut it. Terry Jones: Good job. Dan Hernandez: That came up. Terry Jones: That's a beautiful fish. Dan Hernandez: That’s one in the four pound class. And a little bigger. Terry Jones: Yeah, high three yeah. It’s a good fish. Dan Hernandez: Just like average day out here, Lake Erie fishing. It’s beautiful. Terry Jones: We catch some like that all day long. Dan Hernandez: That's another reason come visit New York. Terry Jones: Absolutely. We just don’t have sky scrapers. We just don’t have Niagara Falls. We have smallmouths. Dan Hernandez: Smallmouths. Yeah, you got some other fish here too. Terry Jones: Yeah, perch, Walla you name it. Dan Hernandez: Here we go. It’s very good. Cool.